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Appearing in this Episode

Sabrina is a strong-willed and brassy young woman who dreams of becoming a headliner for Rival Angels,a professional wrestling organization. Sabrina is a hard worker and committed to making her dream come true.
Sabrina is originally from Indianapolis, IN and attended Penn State University on a rugby scholarship before dropping out to pursue wrestling full-time.
Height: 5’7"
Weight: 135 lbs.
Hair: Blond
Eyes: Green
Hometown: Indianapolis, IN
Wrestling Style: High Flyer
Finishing Move: Ultrasplash (Corkscrew 450 Splash)

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The Syndicate never thought things were going to end like this. Conversely, Sabrina didn’t think things were going to go this way either. Everyone’s surprised! Except a certain Lil Dragon.

Call for Fan Arts!
At the end of this month Rival Angels will be taking a break until the new year. I have some posts prepped of some work I’ve been doing, commissions and even some guest posts. I thought I would share the fun with you too and express some of your favorite angels! Anyone can play and you can pick any of your favorite Rival Angels characters. Just send in Rival Angels art, cosplay, photo-manips, fan fiction (please keep to a page or two), songs, etc., to archangel[at]rivalangels.com or my DeviantArt account and I’ll post them over the break. Please have all submissions in by Monday, November 29th.

Voting Incentive!
No big for the Voting Incentive. Just BFF being BFF. Vote to see what’s coming up! (You also can find a clue on page 87 and/or page 250.)

As it happens, I happen to have a bit of inside knowledge as to who Rua’s next challenger is going to be. It’ll be revealed in a story I’ll be writing for the forum once Al takes his hiatus in a story whose particulars have in fact been approved by him. (And no, it’s not me. I’m clearly more deserving and talented, but the politics of the situation aren’t conducive.)

And this is why Yvonne is awesome. One of the few heels who’s always thinking several steps ahead of anyone she deals with. Now that the Syndicate has been made an example of others won’t be so quick to take her money and then think they can just leave whenever they like.

You have to think that the Syndicate didn’t dream this was going to happen, having a whole ocean inbetween them. Ironically, we’ll see next chapter just what Katsumi’s fatal flaw was with dealing with Yvonne.

I’ve read and re-read the past two chapters several times now, and I’m still not sure how we got from Sabrina beating Black Widow to her calling Sun to Sabrina vs. Callie. I don’t remember ever seeing the start of Sabrina vs Callie, but there was talk in the description of one page of getting BACK to it, as though it had in fact started then was interrupted for Sabrina’s date with Yoshi and all that followed. Did I miss something here?
Anyway, I’m going to go out on a limb here and guess that this is what Yvonne interrupted their phone call for. If so, how did she know this would happen? o.o I do not want to be on Yvonne Carmichael’s bad side. Ever.

Ok, lemme try to sort this out for you. (Helps to have lived through it, I guess!)

* Sabrina’s match with Bitsy was last chapter. We’ll call it Day 4, not a literal day, just for simplicity’s sake. The after party with the Atlas blowup (and the Yoshi hookup is Day 4 + 1)
* We started off chapter 5 towards the end of my match with Sabrina. We’ll call this Day 5. All earlier portions of the match are not shown.
* After this panel, we flashed back to Sabrina’s post-coital phone call to Sun. (Call this Day 5 – 1)
* At this point, there’s a further flashback to Sun’s breakup with whatshisname. (Call this Day 5 – 2)
* We then see Sun’s match (Call this Day 5 – 1.5)
* We catch back up to the phone call (Day 5 – 1)
* We catch back up to the match where Sabrina gets very very lucky (Day 5)
* All the post-match stuff is happening now (Day 5 + 1)

Sun’s you tailcoat riding jabroni. Your last line in this strip says it all. It is Sabrina’s show and you make absolutely no attempt to establish otherwise. if she is not busy being Yvonne’s bitch, you are busy riding Sabrina’s jock.

And really what is Yvonne’s grand plan anyway? Since there are no other real heels around. And who is supposed to be the world champ now that Rua’s back is broken? I want to know what else is going on beside’s Sabrina’s world which as usual is good for her and no one else.

i dont really see her figting back from a beat down as her being tainted and cruel… even the faciest of faces has enough of getting “ran in” on… bravo to sabrina.. people seem to think she lucks her way out of bad scrapes… a think its a lot of skill, determination, and refusal (now at least) to lay down… shes been in this situation before and her in an up right vertical base hasnt beem the usual out come so eh.. good for her

Well, after a certain point it kind of stops being face-ish. I think that by now both of the heels have suffered enough without being hit by a finisher each in the next strip, which seems to be implied by the “Shall we?” line and the way both of them are currently in perfect position for an Ultrasplash and an Atomic Fission.

*drew the play by play guy* This folks is why you dont mess with damage inc.. cause ya cant hide and ya beg your way out of it like katsumi is trying to now..WATCH OUT SUN IS STALKING KATSUMI.. SHE SLIPS THE GO BEHIND… BACK STABBER.. WHATS THIS.. SABRINA IS WINDING UP THE BAND… OOO ULTRA KICK ON THE BUTTON.. THATS WHAT I CALL THE KISS OF DEATH…ULTRA DRAGON STANDS VICTORIOUS OVER THE RUINS OF THE SYNDICATE…I THINK THE SAME THING IS ON OUR MINDS AS WITH EVERYONE AT HOME AND IN THE LOCKER… what did they do with konoichi?” heh

Poor Kasumi. I thought that she brought the “Crazy” into schoolgirl, not the “Whiny”. Hopefully, this will be her “growing up” moment of choice. Or she could ask for a rematch (3 vs 2)…..if she survives UltraDragon bonding time.

We do see the difference between Yvonne and Jennifer/Chloe. Yvonne sees an opportunity and seizes it. Sabrina “OWES” Yvonne and Sun gets the chance to spread Damage Inc influence throughout Japan.
Jennifer/Chloe left their protege suffer through dark match hell and didn’t do anything to Sabrina.

As you can se, Katsumi is mult-talented. XD Oy, not many can last long through Ultradragon bonding time. lol
Yvonne and Chloe have vastly different managerial skills. Yvonne isn’t any less demanding, and arguably isn’t any more effective (though that’s debatable) than Chloe was, but the mood seems better in the Damage Inc locker room.

Good strip, but I was wondering how the whole crowd knew to chant “Ultra Dragon” at the end. Only the people close to the ring would have heard Sun mention the team’s name, and I was under the impression that the Japanese crowd here didn’t follow Rival Angels religiously or anything due to being more or less unfamiliar with Sabrina when she first showed up.

Unfamiliar? She got a shower of streamers from the fans her first night out. It was Neko Suki that didn’t seem to know much about Sabrina, but then Neko Suki didn’t seem to know much about wrestling period.

Funny thing, just like American wrestling fans can check up on what’s happening in Japanese organizations, likewise do Japanese wrestling fans have access to the internet and can check up on people in other places. Sabrina is a hot (I suppose you can count as many entendres as you like right there) new prospect in wrestling and people could have looked her up before she came or even seen her work in the states in the first place. And remember that Sun already had a following from her previous Japanese tour.

Barring all of that, however, “UltraDragon” is simply the coolest portmanteau of “Ultragirl” and “Lil’ Dragon” anyway. The fans would have been smart enough to figure that out. Though now I want one of them to mess it up and try to start a new chant.